Childhood & Sentimental memories

Kiwisaver_2

TudorRose wrote: »

Hall's Balsam cough mixture. Used to beg not to be given it but was still given it then promptly spent next 10 mins retching.

Evil parents used to tell us the worse it tasted, the better it was for you. I couldn't remember the name of the yucky cough mixture but could well remember the dramas involved and the holding of the nose whilst we forced it down. Children today, they dont know they're born ......:D

Agapanthus

JackieO wrote: »

P.S. My late OH had a penchant for Woodwards Gripe Water as well and would sneak a mouthful when ever he got the chance :D:D

I'm not surprised. Gripe water was around 4% alcohol - the same as a strong beer!:beer:

gallygirl

Ferguzade anyone?

patchwork_cat

Molly41 wrote: »

In the late seventies I went on a school trip to the Norfolk beaches and we "played" with shell encasements/ shells? Not the beachy type ones but of the bomb variety. Can you imagine what would happen these days if that happened?

I asked the Kids Dad if he remembers the clinic and welfare orange. he comes from Up North and he had Rosehip. Was there a North/south divide?

No I am 44 and from oop North and don't remember welfare orange juice, nor does my OH from the midlands. Was it an income based thing? or was it just that our mum's didn't go to clinic ! I do remember rise and shine powder and we used to eat it at school like sherbert, dipping our finger in it. We didn't have Rosehip syrup either.

We had jam in semolina too and would swirl it in to make it pink, I loved semolina!

THIRZAH

My mother said that during the second world war,when she was at school,they used to be served a plain sponge pudding for school dinners with a sauce made from the bottled orange juice-she loved it.

They also used to be given a day off school to pick rosehips.

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bicki pegs
ovaltine rusks
carts made from orange boxes and pram wheels
roller skates with 4 wheels and straps
two balls on the wall
dip dip dip, my blue ship
crackerjack
muffin the mule
cardboard dolls and paper dresses with tabs
cardboard sweet shops
sweet cigarettes
scary fanny craddock
santa photo with a live monkey
ollies (marbles)
playing with lots of bottle tops from the pub
angora boleros and hats
speccy 4 eyes -my round john lennon glasses
outside toilet and paraffin lamp in winter
lino
lovely fire and bottles of frozen milk in class

maman

patchwork_cat wrote: »

No I am 44 and from oop North and don't remember welfare orange juice, nor does my OH from the midlands. Was it an income based thing? or was it just that our mum's didn't go to clinic ! I do remember rise and shine powder and we used to eat it at school like sherbert, dipping our finger in it. We didn't have Rosehip syrup either.

We had jam in semolina too and would swirl it in to make it pink, I loved semolina!

I don't think you would remember the welfare orange juice pc. It was definitely a post-war thing and more like a squash than a juice. The mini bottles of orange juice that the milkman brought round were much later. Rosehip syrup was definitely around when you were a toddler. In my area it was used diluted in a bottle or (:eek:) neat in a dinky feeder. Dinky feeders were only a step away from dummies in that they did actually have something in them but goodness knows how they affected teeth. Maybe this wasn't poplar oop north!

Strangely enough, in those days we were ashamed of using dummies ( just a lazy way of keeping children quiet) now almost every baby I see seems to have a huge one obliterating its face!

Molly41

Well welfare Orange went on well into the seventies. My parents were pretty poor so perhaps it was a income related benefit?

Pink.

It's lovely reading through everyone's memories and many of them are reminding me of my own childhood.:)

As we have an existing thread on Childhood & Sentimental memories I'll merge both threads later to keep the replies in one place.

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